0 (of habits or ideas) fixed and unable to change: --
He tried to push liberalizing policies through an ossified bureaucracy.
The institutions of government have become more ossified and inflexible.
1 (of body tissue) having become hard and changed into bone: --
Thousands of fossilized dinosaur footprints have survived and become preserved in ossified rock.
The car was completely covered in ossified bird droppings.
The fontanelle is a membrane-covered space between cranial bodies in the fetus that later becomes ossified.
The government must escape its ossified past.
Fight the tendency to become ossified in your musical tastes.
The whole system has become ossified and unresponsive.
